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nursery

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The act of nursing.

The place where nursing is carried on

The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.

A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.

The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

That which is nursed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. Jean Cocteau

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. Tré Cool

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. Vivienne Westwood

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. Benjamin Disraeli

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more. Ray Bradbury

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not. Betty Friedan

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